Surname Saturday - Hull

My 9x great grandfather Joseph Hull was a minister. He left a great paper trail. Ministers can be dream ancestors for
genealogists because of the plethora of records. He graduated from Oxford
on 14 November 1614 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He served as curate at Colyton in Devonshire. Later he was ordained in the Church of
England on 14 April 1621 as called to be rector at Northleigh in the Diocese of
Exeter. During this time period he began
to believe in “non-conformist” ideas. There
is no record of his marriage, and his wife’s name is known only as "Agnes". This is odd, considering how much other information is known about Joseph Hull’s life.

Reverend Hull led 106 people from Somersetshire (about 20
families, his wife, 7 children and 3 servants) and arrived in Massachusetts on
7 June 1635. He was a freeman in
Weymouth in September 1635 and preaching in a church as an Episcopalian, but
causing dissention. He moved to Barnstable
in 1639 and Yarmouth in 1641 (both towns are on Cape Cod) but was temporarily excommunicated by Governor Winthrop because he left Weymouth without asking
permission.

By 1643 he was the minister in York, Maine. By 1652 he was back in Launceston, Cornwall
leaving all his children but one In Massachusetts. In 1662 he was “ejected from the rectory of Buryan, Cornwall County, England.” Again he came to America and this time went
to New Hampshire. He first served as
minister at Oyster River (now the city of Durham, New Hampshire) and then
settled as minister at the fishing colony on the Isles of Shoals where he remained until his death in 1665. Although he moved around New England and back and forth across the Atlantic, he left enough of a paper trail along the way for historians to follow his movements as a minister.

The Hull’s Company ship had a list of passengers compiled by
John Porter, deputy clerk to Edward Thoroughgood on 20 March 1635. They left from Weymouth, England and named
their settlement in Massachusetts after this port.

The Hull Genealogy:

Generation 1: The
Reverend Joseph Hull was born about 1595 in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England,
and died 18 November 1665 on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New
Hampshire. The name of his wife is known
only as Agnes. Seven children all born
in England:

1. Joanna,
born about 1620, married first to John Bursley, second to Dolor Davis who is my
10x great grandfather with his first wife, Margery Willard.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Hull, born about 1628 in Northleigh,
Devonshire, England, and died 30 November 1706 in Dover, New Hampshire; married
about 1643 in Northleigh to John Heard, who died 17 January 1689 in Dover. Fifteen children.

Accounts of the Reverend Hull’s life can be found in the History
of the Township of Durham, New Hampshire by Everett S. Stackpole,
Lucien Thompson and Winthrop S. Meserve, 1913, in the book The Isles of Shoals in Lore and
Legend, by Lyman V. Rutledge, 1965, and in The Isles of Shoals: An Historic
Sketch by John Scribner Jenness, 1975. A good account of his early
years in Massachusetts can be found in Volume 1 of The History of Weymouth,
Massachusetts, 1923, and page 73 lists the passengers in the Hull
Company ship.

There are sketches of Rev. Hull’s life also in The
Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, by Robert Charles Anderson,
George F. Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, 1999, Volume III, pages 452 – 460
and also in Ancestral Lines by Carl Boyer, 1998, pages 318 -324.

I was wondering if you had a source for the birthplace and DOB for John Heard who married Elizabeth Hull. I have them in my tree and have never seen any info on his birthplace. Thanks, Jeaniewww.jeaniesgenealogy.com

Jeanie, this will be the second edit to this post. Did you see the update from Martin Holick at http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/12/surname-saturday-hull-update.html? I've removed the birth information from John Heard because there is no good source information on his birthplace yet. Heather

Wow! I didn't know we were cousins! I also descend from Reverend Joseph Hull through Tristram => John => John => Joseph => Sarah Hull who married George Piggott.

I am putting a family history book together for my mom and I am going to do a scrapbook page of our four 'men of the cloth': Rev. Joseph Hull, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, Rev. John Wing, and Rev. John Forbes. That's what landed me here :-)

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Author of the Nutfield Genealogy blog and occasional genealogy speaker. My family research includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, with a smattering of Nova Scotia. Please contact me if you see your ancestors on this blog. I would love to share information. I am the former secretary of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society, former President of the Londonderry Historical Society, member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Mass. Society of Genealogists, The National Genealogical Society, and the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists.